AWS Summit London 2014 | Introduction to Amazon EC2 (100)

This session will provide an overview of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service capability and help you understand the latest updates to the range of instances types, virtual private cloud (VPC) features. It will also help you to understand the broad range of pricing options that EC2 provides and how you can use these to make smart decisions that reduce your costs.

15.
Using AWS, Dow Jones saved $40,000;
improves time-to-market by 30%
• Dow Jones & Company provides news and
business information for the global investment
market.
• Dow Jones needed to replace its Asian data
center with a flexible, cost-effective alternative
that allowed its staff to focus on building
products
• Moving its data center to AWS saved $40,000 in
hardware costs and enabled Dow Jones staff to
focus on creating revenue-producing
applications for the website

16.
• One of the world's leading online travel
companies, providing leisure and business
travel to customers worldwide
• Expedia needed a global infrastructure to
support its commitment to create a great
experience for customers worldwide
• Using AWS, Expedia created a global
infrastructure for its critical applications while
reducing network latency to under 50
milliseconds and enabling a 230% CPU
consumption efficiency for data processing
Expedia uses AWS to run critical, high volume applications globally

27.
Completely Controlled
• You have control of your instances
• Log on as root (Linux) / Administrator (Windows)
• Install the software you need
• Make the configuration changes you like
• Create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
• Start/Stop and control via console or APIs

29.
Multiple Instance Types
• Choose the instance type that suits you
• Change the instance type when you want to
• Attach as much or as little storage as you need
• Choose your operating system
• Choose a pre-configured image (AMI)

38.
Unix/Linux
instances
start
at
$0.02/
hour
Pay
as
you
go
for
compute
power
Low
cost
and
ﬂexibility
Pay
only
for
what
you
use,
no
up-­‐front
commitments
or
long-­‐term
contracts
Use
Cases:
Applica'ons
with
short
term,
spiky,
or
unpredictable
workloads;
Applica'on
development
or
tes'ng
On-demand instances
On-Demand instances

39.
Unix/Linux
instances
start
at
$0.02/
hour
Pay
as
you
go
for
compute
power
Low
cost
and
ﬂexibility
Pay
only
for
what
you
use,
no
up-­‐front
commitments
or
long-­‐term
contracts
Use
Cases:
Applica'ons
with
short
term,
spiky,
or
unpredictable
workloads;
Applica'on
development
or
tes'ng
On-demand instances
1-­‐
or
3-­‐year
terms
Pay
low
up-­‐front
fee,
receive
signiﬁcant
hourly
discount
Low
Cost
/
Predictability
Helps
ensure
compute
capacity
is
available
when
needed
Use
Cases:
Applica'ons
with
steady
state
or
predictable
usage
Applica'ons
that
require
reserved
capacity,
including
disaster
recovery
Reserved instances
Reserved instances

40.
Unix/Linux
instances
start
at
$0.02/
hour
Pay
as
you
go
for
compute
power
Low
cost
and
ﬂexibility
Pay
only
for
what
you
use,
no
up-­‐front
commitments
or
long-­‐term
contracts
Use
Cases:
Applica'ons
with
short
term,
spiky,
or
unpredictable
workloads;
Applica'on
development
or
tes'ng
On-demand instances
1-­‐
or
3-­‐year
terms
Pay
low
up-­‐front
fee,
receive
signiﬁcant
hourly
discount
Low
Cost
/
Predictability
Helps
ensure
compute
capacity
is
available
when
needed
Use
Cases:
Applica'ons
with
steady
state
or
predictable
usage
Applica'ons
that
require
reserved
capacity,
including
disaster
recovery
Reserved instances
Reserved instances
Up
to
58%
Savings
Heavy utilization RI